Oft repeated in the course of the CRTC’s wholesale access proceedings was the virtue of investment in telecommunications facilities. The incumbents and their expert economists argue that resellers of telecommunications capacity are some sort of parasitic beast, who can only…

The present Government is known for presenting amazingly lengthy and complex budget implementation bills (BIAs) that often contain new policy directions that have never had a public airing. The current Bill C-43 does not disappoint in this regard: it vastly…

I am spending a second week of being glued to CPAC, watching the CRTC telecommunications wholesale access proceedings. One interesting aspect is the seeming sincerity with which the incumbent telcos and cablecos have repeatedly told the Commission that, when it…

The CRTC’s current wholesale access proceedings have featured just about every possible variant on special pleading imaginable. All the arguments of past years have been recycled, and perhaps some new ones trotted out. This applies both to the incumbents and…

The CRTC has spent the past week in the first of two weeks of hearings on wholesale access by third parties to incumbent telco and cablecos facilities in order to compete for customers of retail services (internet, telephony, television). This…

I was interested to read David Lewis’s posts on 4k (or Ultra High Definition – UHD) TV (https://cartt.ca/article/commentary-new-platform-investments-co-operation-needed-now-coming-uhd-capacity-crunches). Briefly, UHD is a technology that expands the resolution of HD television from 1080 pixels to 4000. There are already television sets…

The CRTC has wrapped up its hearings on wireless policy. This was the second round of the of three major CRTC policy hearings this fall (the other two are Let’s Talk TV, in which the public hearings have concluded, and…

The CRTC has backed off from attempting to enforce its claims to jurisdiction over Netflix and Google. The broadcast regulator has lived to fight another day. The question that poses itself as a result is: if not now, when…

Let’s Talk TV with the CRTC The CRTC is in the midst of an important series of hearings. These hearings are on the future of the regulation of Canadian TV, the wholesale access to wireless services, and the policies that…

The following is an articleI wrote that appeared in the Comments section of the Financial Post on September 30, 2014. CRTC vs. Netflix: The disruptive power of the Internet Philip Palmer, Special to Financial Post The government authority and justification in…

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